Cardiovascular Disease

• Embolus

  • If the thrombus breaks loose it becomes an embolus.

  • An embolus gets carried along in the bloodstream until it

  reaches a blood vessel that is too narrow for it to travel

  through.

  • This blood vessel becomes blocked and blood flow becomes restricted or completely blocked.
• Stroke

  A thrombosis that occurs in an artery in the brain may cause a stroke.

  Brain cells need a constant supply of oxygen from the blood. Soon after the blood supply is cut off, the cells in the affected area of the brain become damaged or die.